Also 5 ? socibbilitee. [f. next + -ITY. Cf. F. sociabilité, Sp. sociabilidad, Pg. -idade.] The character or quality of being sociable; friendly disposition or intercourse.
a. 1475. Ashby, Poems (1899), ii. 270. He shall appere false and sedicious, Be al quaint socibbilitees and labour.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvii. 152. Doth he not shew forth an euident sociabilitie and liklyhood, that he will be very well to be liued withall?
1594. Parsons, Confer. Success., I. i. 3. Sociability or inclination to liue togeather in company.
1738. Warburton, Div. Legat., II. vi. I. 275. Such then was the Root and Foundation of this Sociability of Religion in the ancient World, so much envied by our modern Infidels.
1786. Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 12 Aug. We were flung, by this means, into a style of sociability we might else never have arrived at.
1812. J. J. Henry, Camp. agst. Quebec, 134. Curse on these civil wars which extinguish the sociabilities of mankind, and annihilate the strength of nations.
1880. Flo. Marryat, Fair-Haired Alda, II. v. 82. They were wofully disappointed by the results of their intended sociability.
